Margrit McIntosh (pronouns she, her)
@memcinto.bsky.social
Random liberal. Daughter of an immigrant.
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- Isaac Asimov.
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- Isaac Asimov.
This is pretty amazing. The resistance is so creative!!!
When they can’t bury the truth at the Capitol, they try to drown it in the river.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is pretty amazing. The resistance is so creative!!!
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When they can’t bury the truth at the Capitol, they try to drown it in the river.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
When they can’t bury the truth at the Capitol, they try to drown it in the river.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
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When the stress of hunger and traffic trigger their prey drive, even domesticated buses revert to their primal hunting strategy. Working in packs, they encircle smaller, fuel-rich vehicles and extract their nutrients.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When the stress of hunger and traffic trigger their prey drive, even domesticated buses revert to their primal hunting strategy. Working in packs, they encircle smaller, fuel-rich vehicles and extract their nutrients.
Wonderful profile. Thank you LA Taco.
He spent almost a whole day with me. I divulged more than I usually do, things about my personal life I don’t talk about. I appreciated him taking a sincere interest. So just want to say thank you @gustavoarellano.bsky.social for this feature.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
@lataco.bsky.social
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Commentary: The ex-landscaper behind the deportation diary L.A. never wanted
“Daily Memo” has become the diary Los Angeles never asked for but which is now indispensable, documenting in real time one of the most terrifying chapters in the region's history.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Wonderful profile. Thank you LA Taco.
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Thank you Sally Mayersohn for your caring Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! We can all be thankful to live in Tucson, and participate in giving back to this vibrant community.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thank you Sally Mayersohn for your caring Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star! We can all be thankful to live in Tucson, and participate in giving back to this vibrant community.
And that's by design -- the goal was always to destroy public education.
In 2024, ESA vouchers drained $37M from Tucson, $14M from Amphi, $8M from Vail, and $4 from Catalina Foothills — now, these districts are facing funding shortages, staff cuts & school closures 😥
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And that's by design -- the goal was always to destroy public education.
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Qualifying for Medicaid is not easy. ICE won’t find anyone who is a non citizen receiving care. This is an invasion of privacy!
NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE migrantinsider.com/p/medicaid-d...
NEWS: Medicaid Data Now Flows to ICE
Effective today, a new federal directive allows immigration enforcement to access state healthcare enrollment data, TPS ends for thousands of Burmese war refugees, plus Kristi Noem explainer video.
migrantinsider.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Qualifying for Medicaid is not easy. ICE won’t find anyone who is a non citizen receiving care. This is an invasion of privacy!
Scary, prescient article (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Scary, prescient article (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I took inventory. It looked good.
In 2025 We Showed Up: Notes on Resistance to the Regime
Ayoung white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I took inventory. It looked good.
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Good study from KCL: “Terms like 'bots' or 'trolls' no longer capture the full variety of online manipulation. Today, we observe a spectrum of actors ranging from fully automated accounts to 'cyborgs'…co-ordinated troll farms, and loyalist users who…become part of orchestrated campaigns.”
This is useful recent research on how the “bot” category breaks down into people and actual bots - “inauthentic participation” is the unifier www.kcl.ac.uk/orchestrated...
Orchestrated Crowds: Rethinking Inauthentic Participation in Digital…
What is driving online communication today?
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Good study from KCL: “Terms like 'bots' or 'trolls' no longer capture the full variety of online manipulation. Today, we observe a spectrum of actors ranging from fully automated accounts to 'cyborgs'…co-ordinated troll farms, and loyalist users who…become part of orchestrated campaigns.”
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
Don't they realize how panicked and desperate they sound?? Don't they realize how silly they look???
Setting aside for a second the lunacy and authoritarianism surrounding the Trump/Hegseth threat to court martial Mark Kelly, it is also politically moronic. No military court or jury would uphold this, and you only do Kelly a tremendous favor by making him more popular than ever.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Don't they realize how panicked and desperate they sound?? Don't they realize how silly they look???
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They are badly overreaching and don't realize it one bit. The hysterical way they're reacting is a flashing red siren of consciousness of guilt.
The Pentagon has launched a review of "serious allegations of misconduct" against Senator Mark Kelly after he told service members to refuse unlawful orders.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
They are badly overreaching and don't realize it one bit. The hysterical way they're reacting is a flashing red siren of consciousness of guilt.
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Sick people.
"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
"“This is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. “This is fun,” another replied.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sick people.
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I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Twitter's foreign influence problem is nothing new
The platform's just-debuted geolocation tool illuminates a disturbing and persistent issue.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
New threats from Trump:
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
As pointed out by Joyce Vance and Jill Wine Banks of #SistersInLaw, by ordering an investigation of ONLY the "Democrats" in the Epstein Files, they now made it OK to release those parts of the Epstein Files not related to Democrats. I.e., Republicans.
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As pointed out by Joyce Vance and Jill Wine Banks of #SistersInLaw, by ordering an investigation of ONLY the "Democrats" in the Epstein Files, they now made it OK to release those parts of the Epstein Files not related to Democrats. I.e., Republicans.
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Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
🗣️ jessmichaelsspeaks (IG)
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
🗣️ jessmichaelsspeaks (IG)
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
🗣️ jessmichaelsspeaks (IG)
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
🗣️ jessmichaelsspeaks (IG)